Composing imaginative, persuasive and reflective writing, and explaining the choices made, with an emphasis on clarity of purpose.
These are the statements the English Standard syllabus makes about Module C: The Craft of Writing. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Composing a narrative or vignette with deliberate control of voice, structure and detail, using a stimulus as a starting point rather than a subject.
Writing to move a specified audience: a clear position, credible evidence, and rhetorical choices matched to the occasion.
Explaining your own compositional choices with the reason tied to the intended effect, rather than describing what you wrote.
Adjusting syntax, vocabulary and tone for a purpose and audience, and making that adjustment visible to a marker.
Taking the idea from a supplied stimulus into a new form, rather than restating its words.
Revising to cut what is redundant and sharpen what is vague, including deleting the sentence that explains what the image already said.
Analysing another writer's craft choices and using that analysis to justify your own, which is what the reflection question actually asks.
Writing in the form the question specifies — speech, feature article, letter, narrative — and meeting its conventions without letting them flatten the voice.
HSC English Standard - Trial Paper Shape is 100 marks in 180 minutes. Questions on Module C: The Craft of Writing are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones English Standard uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Module C: The Craft of Writing is module 4 of 4 in English Standard. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses English Standard dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.